The Morning Briefing: Everyone Else Needs to Tone Down Their Rhetoric and Much, Much More

A new group of Central American migrants wade in mass across the Suchiate River, that connects Guatemala and Mexico, in Tecun Uman, Guatemala, Monday, Oct. 29, 2018. The first group was able to cross the river on rafts — an option now blocked by Mexican Navy river and shore patrols. (AP Photo/Santiago Billy)

Good Tuesday morning.

Here is what’s on the president’s agenda today:

The president and first lady travel to Pittsburgh to meet with victims’ families of the Pittsburgh shooting.

Pittsburgh update

After President Trump won the 2016 election, the media and the Democrats announced that they would do everything in their power to obstruct and ruin his presidency. They did not want Trump to succeed and they did not want America to prosper under Trump. This directive is the backdrop of every aspect of public discourse on Trump and Trump-related matters. And everything, EVERYTHING, is somehow related to Trump. (Really, Red Sox?)

The news on the Pittsburgh synagogue slaughter falls into this category and the strongest narrative on the tragedy is that Trump inspired this/is responsible because he hates Jews/is antisemitic/didn’t condemn the white supremacists or whatever flimsy excuses the resistance needs to blame Trump. In reality, Trump is probably the most pro-Israel president the U.S. has ever had. I’m Jewish and I think he’s done right by Israel.

Those of us who are not in the #resistance are getting lectured on toning down our rhetoric from left-wing hysterics shouting all kinds of slanderous and intemperate accusations. GQ columnist Julia Ioffe, in reference to synagogue shooting, claimed that Trump has radicalized more people than ISIS. “I think this president, one of the things that he really launched his presidential run on is talking about Islamic radicalization. And this president has radicalized so many more people than ISIS ever did. I mean, the way he talks, the way he — the way he… ” Ioffe said.

So I am supposed to believe that calling Trump supporters Nazis, white supremacists, sexists, and homophobes is just the right thing to do but Trump’s rhetoric is pouring gasoline on a burning fire of crazy activists? Or perhaps violence in the name of the leftist agenda is just fine? I think that’s it.

President Trump is sending 5,200 troops to the border to help control the thousands of South Americans heading to the U.S.

Homeland Security and Pentagon officials said Monday that they will send 5,200 troops, military helicopters and giant spools of razor wire to the Mexican border in the coming days to brace for the arrival of Central American migrants President Trump is calling “an invasion.”

I think it’s important for Trump to set an example that the U.S. is serious about protecting its border. Hopefully a strong showing will dissuade people from trying to enter the U.S. in this way. It’s dangerous.

“We are preparing for the contingency of large groups of arriving persons in the next several weeks,” Kevin K. McAleenan, the top U.S. border security official. “We will not allow a large group to enter the United States in an unsafe and unlawful manner.”

Immigrant advocacy groups and the American Civil Liberties Union blasted the move to send military forces and said migrants are exercising their rights under international and federal laws to seek asylum in the United States. Many are walking toward the United States with their families and say they are escaping violence and grinding poverty back home.

“These migrants need water, diapers and basic necessities — not an army division,” Shaw Drake, policy counsel for the ACLU’s Border Rights Center in El Paso, said in a statement. “Sending active military forces to our southern border is not only a huge waste of taxpayer money but an unnecessary course of action that will further terrorize and militarize our border communities.”

The migrants have been offered jobs, schools, and residency in Mexico. The law dictates that people fleeing their home country looking for amnesty need to take it in the first country in which they arrive and that’s Mexico. We will see how this plays out over the next week since these theatrics are really about manipulating the election.

Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan waves and shares a smile with members of Dejan’s Olympia Brass Band during an airport rally in New Orleans on Oct. 30, 1980. At right is Louisiana Congressman Henson Moore. (AP Photo/Walter Zeboski)